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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Cornel West

Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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Country Holiday Our People Society
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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Country People Rights
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Entangled Falling Love
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Philosophy Understanding Way
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism

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